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Flying Fish, Coconut, Fresh Grapefruit and Oranges On The Mountain.

Hello my name is Seth Muise. I was born and raised in Gloucester. I left there right after graduation in 2000 and joined the Army. All my family still lives there. I absolutely love you blogs and website it always makes me feel like I’m back home! I just wanted to Thank You for all you do! No matter where I am in the country or the world you always give me a piece of Gloucester!

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Did you know A lobster trap or lobster pot is a portable trap which traps lobsters or crayfish and is used in lobster fishing. A lobster trap can hold several lobsters. Lobster traps were traditionally constructed out of wood but they are now usually plastic coated metal. An opening permits the lobster to enter a tunnel of netting. Pots are usually constructed in two parts, called the “chamber” or “kitchen”, where there is bait, and exits into the “parlour”, where it is trapped from escape. Lobster pots are usually dropped to the sea floor about a dozen at a time, and are marked by a buoy so they can be picked up later.  A piece of bait, often fish or chum, is placed inside the trap, and the traps are dropped onto the sea floor. A long rope is attached to each trap, at the end of which is a plastic or styrofoam buoy that bears the owner’s license number. The entrances to the traps are designed to be one-way entrances only. The traps are checked every other day by the fisherman and rebaited if necessary. One study indicated that lobster traps are very inefficient and allow almost all lobsters to escape.  Yet, this inefficiency also allows younger lobsters to escape and breed, thus reducing the possibility of overfishing.  In other words, we only get to eat the not very smart lobsters that couldn’t figure out how to get out of the trap.

In the 1950’s, during the Great Lobster War, my father, Willis Lefavour, and his partner, Bob Winchell, did an underwater shoot in the Damariscotta River for Salt Water Farms in Damariscotta, Maine, of lobsters entering traps.  Their photographic documentation proved the previously unknown fact that lobsters enter the trap head first.  Before that it was not known for sure how they entered.  Since lobsters swim backwards, it was thought that they could have entered either backwards or head first.  For the shoot, they used ASA 10 film and kept their light meters in mason jars.

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

The Essex PTO is searching for local artists to participate in the second annual Messy Art Night on Friday, Feb. 4th from 5-8pm.   Do you know anyone who would enjoy sharing their talent and love of art with kids for an evening? It’s a fantastic event that’s open to the public.  I’ve attached a brief summary that you can forward on to people who might be interested.  Thanks for the help and I hope you will come to the event.  It’s so much fun!  — Jess

I checked the box- packed in Gloucester MA! Pretty cool

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One Year ago this Month I started posting on GMG.

It’s been an interesting year. Sometimes an idea for a post comes easy other times it’s hard as hell. Joey brought me on board to bring a little edge to GMG and take some heat off him when he “F”s up. We’ve had a few “moments”, but he learned to deal with my meltdowns pretty well.

But I did warn him in first official post. 

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/joeys-invitation-he-may-soon-regret/

Here’s another one of my first posts praising Joey’s Devotion to GMG.

Enjoy!

Repost from January 2010;

You Gotta Love Him!

No Matter What He’s Doing,

Joey’s Always Working Hard To Bring You Great Content!

Thanks Joey!

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/you-gotta-love-him/

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Listening to NPR in the car the other day  (don't panic…it was Sarah's car and within a few minutes those pussies had me ready to jump out of my skin), and there was a great term being thrown around: Information cascade. According to Wikipedia, an information cascade  occurs when people observe the actions of others and then make the same choice that the others have made, independently of their own private information signals. Because it is usu … Read More

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Hey Joe,

Took this today @ 3pm, thought oyu might enjoy it.

Hope you’re enjoying your vacation

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Got this Email from Joey informing of this article in The Gloucester Daily Times;

“They picked up that I call you Paulie walnuts!  That’s fucking awesome!”
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/local/x756276419/Talk-of-the-Times-SeniorCare-saga-heads-readers-top-10-story-poll

someday i’ll get the respect I deserve.

From the Gloucester Daily Times January 07, 2011

“Happy Birthday, GMG

One of the Times’ community blogs turned 3 last month.

Lobster dealer Joey Ciaramitaro of Capt. Joe & Sons began the “Good Morning Gloucester: My Life on the Docks” blog on Dec. 29, 2007. Thirteen thousand posts later, after its third birthday, Ciaramitaro is still promoting the city he loves.

“That first year I didn’t blog with the frequency I do now. There was several posts a day but not the hourly schedule of a post an hour every hour from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. with the occasional midnight post thrown in,” Ciaramitaro blogged recently. “In the entire 3-year run there have only been 13 days that went without a post, the last being April 15, 2008.”

He doesn’t do it alone; regular contributors include Sharon Lowe, Mike Lindberg, Laurie Lufkin, Paul Morrison, Thom Falzarano, David Cox, Paulie “Walnuts” Frontiero, Manny Simoes, Joanne Silva, Beth Swan, among others.

The blog regularly features pictures of Gloucester at dawn, the fishing industry, St. Peter’s Fiesta, the Block Parties, food served at local restaurants, and art around Cape Ann.

Ciaramitaro has been honored by the Senate and Congress for his work on GMG, and received an Action Inc. Outreach Award.

“The No. 1 thing that I cherish about this thing called Good Morning Gloucester is the relationships and opportunities to create friendships with so many quality people and that is worth more than awards, more than money,” he wrote. “Friendships, love, passion for creating and an outlet to express it all. What more could a man ask for?”

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Did you know that sea serpent sightings around Gloucester became front-page news in 1817 and 1818?  On August 17, 1818, the Boston Commercial Gazette reported the following, under the title “The Leviathan of the Deep”: 

The famous Sea Serpent, was seen on the 16th near Squam Light House, by many persons, some of whom were within twenty feet of him. He is now described as being ‘perfectly harmless, and might easily be caught.’ . . . The knowing ones in Boston have been computing the average amount which will be derived from an exhibition of the Sea Serpent. One hundred thousand dollars is the sum decided on!

The serpent was said to be more than 130 feet long and to pass through the water “with the rapidity of a meteor through the heavens.” On September 5 the Newport Mercury ran the exciting headline “The Sea Serpent—Taken!” The serpent had been captured by several people near the lighthouse, according to the story, after it had dragged their boat for two miles. The newspaper The Watch Tower soon reported the disappointing news that the appearance of the serpent was “very different from when it was alive and swimming.” The creature caught was a mere 10 feet long, with a head “of a hard scaly substance, which a harpoon cannot penetrate.” The undersized monster apparently never earned its captors the vast sums of money they had hoped for.

While going back through my photos from the storm, I discovered that the sea serpent is back, and I had unwittingly captured him on film.  Anyone want to pay me one hundred thousand dollars for this rare photo? 

E.J. Lefavour

www.khanstudiointernational.com

Apparently They Aren’t Getting Edible Boston Here

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Joey- here are Donald Chapelle’s of Brilliant Ice Sculpture in Lawrence’s First Night Boston Orca sculpture pix. Cape Pond Ice supplied Donald with sculpture ice blocks and logistical support for his beautiful ice creations